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When I walked out of the station it was nearly 10:30 in the night and rickshaw stand was deserted save one old man who pulled his rickshaw towards me. This man is one of the oldest rickshaw pullers in the area and the only one who waits here with his rickshaw until the passengers of the […]

My India is a huge rosewood tree with several Indias sitting on its branches. One of these Indias, the India of Bengal, rises to a new year, every poila boishakh. This new year comes around the 14th or 15th of April; about the time when the sun starts baking and melting the asphalt on the road […]

I would like to become your trophy
Be hung on your bedroom wall
And look on with dead eyes -
While you hump like a gorilla with another man.
Watch over your cracked heels,
Your soiled fingernails,
Smell your sweat, mingled, with that of tobacco.
But that’s all I can do -
Watch on, and smell…
‘Coz I am just a head;
Just a head without […]